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Lesson 1 doc 17

TITLE:  [Adam and Eve in America]
CALL NUMBER:  Illus. in F229 .H27 Rosenwald Collection [Rare Book RR]
REPRODUCTION NUMBER:  LC-USZC4-5347 (color film copy transparency)
LC-DIG-ppmsca-02936 (scan from color copy photo in Publishing Office)
No known restrictions on publication.
SUMMARY:  Allegorical print showing Adam standing, looking up, as Eve reaches for apple from the tree of knowledge. Serpent with head and upper body of a woman, entwined around the tree.
MEDIUM:  1 print : engraving.
CREATED/PUBLISHED:  [1590]
CREATOR: Bry, Theodor de, 1528-1598, artist.


 

 

 

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